Sessions
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Solomon Demo: Objective Adjustment Support Using the Cost Approach

This demo shows how Solomon is used to support sales grid adjustments objectively by applying the depreciated cost method, helping appraisers document adjustments more consistently and defensibly.

Tech Demos
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
ACI Demo: Modern Valuation Workflows, AI, and Human-Centered Design

This demo shows how ACI is evolving as a modern valuation platform, focusing on workflow efficiency, data integration, and AI-enhanced support, while keeping the appraiser firmly at the center of decision-making.

Tech Demos
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Freedom Appraise Demo: Appraiser-Built Software for End-to-End Workflow

This demo shows how Freedom Appraise is used as a mobile-first, cloud-based appraisal platform built by an appraiser to streamline the entire workflow, from data import and sketching through adjustments and report delivery.

Tech Demos
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
UAD 3.6 in Plain English: What Agents Need to Know

This session explains UAD 3.6 in plain English, specifically for real estate agents who need to understand how appraisal data standards affect transactions, timelines, and communication without wading through technical jargon.

Agent Pricing Lab
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
If I Were Starting Today: Real-World Guidance for New Appraisers

This session distills nearly five decades of appraisal experience into practical, plain-spoken guidance for people just entering the profession today.

Career Launchpad
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
A Career in Business Valuation

This session introduces business valuation as a profession and career path through the lens of a practitioner who has spent decades doing the work—and then stepped back to help others build successful valuation practices.

Career Launchpad
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
A Career in Assessment
Career Launchpad
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Understanding Appraiser Licensing & Regulation: A State Regulator’s Perspective

This session explains how appraiser licensing and regulation work from the perspective of a state regulator with a focus on how someone actually becomes an appraiser.

Career Launchpad
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Commercial Appraisal in Practice

This session provides a candid, current look at what it means to be a commercial appraiser today, inside large, institutional valuation platforms serving debt and equity clients at scale.

Career Launchpad
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Getting Hired in Valuation: What Employers Actually Look For

This session gives appraisers and aspiring appraisers a transparent look at what valuation firms actually look for when hiring beyond licenses, designations, or years of experience.

Career Launchpad
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
The Appraiser’s Role in Modern Lending: A Fannie Mae Perspective

This session explains why valuation remains a foundational pillar of the modern mortgage lending system and clarifies the critical role appraisers play within that system from Fannie Mae’s perspective.

Career Launchpad
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
From Assignment to Courtroom: An Intro to Litigation Support and Expert Testimony

This session introduces appraisers to litigation support and expert testimony by clarifying what makes legal-facing valuation work fundamentally different from typical lending assignments and what it takes to be credible when your analysis is challenged directly.

New Revenue Playbook
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Navigating Divorce Valuations: From First Steps to Best Practices

This session gives appraisers a practical, start-to-finish framework for handling divorce-related valuation assignments in a way that is clear, neutral, and defensible.

New Revenue Playbook
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Appraising and Home Inspecting
New Revenue Playbook
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 1
Estate Valuation Fundamentals: What Every Appraiser Should Know

This session provides appraisers with a clear, practical foundation for estate valuation work, one of the most common and highest-risk private appraisal assignments.

New Revenue Playbook
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Green Valuation in Action: Auditing Energy-Efficient Properties with Confidence

This session provides real estate appraisers with a practical, standards-grounded introduction to valuing and auditing energy-efficient and “green” properties with confidence and credibility.

New Revenue Playbook
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
The World of Business Valuation

This session introduces real estate appraisers to the field of business valuation in clear, practical terms, what it is, where it is used, and how professionals actually practice within it.

New Revenue Playbook
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Session 26 Saturday
AI Ready Appraiser
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Inside the Engine: How AI Actually Powers Modern Appraisal Platforms

This session opens the “black box” behind modern appraisal technology platforms to explain how AI actually functions under the hood, beyond marketing language and surface-level features.

AI Ready Appraiser
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Using AI
AI Ready Appraiser
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Session 21 Saturday
AI Ready Appraiser
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Session 20 Saturday
AI Ready Appraiser
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Session 18 Saturday
Appraising in 2027
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Analytics-Backed Adjustments: Turning Market Data Into Defensible Decisions

This session focuses on how appraisers can use market analytics to support adjustments that are both credible and defensible.

Appraising in 2027
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Best Practices for As-Is and As-Repaired Valuations of REO Assets

This session focuses on best practices for developing credible as-is and as-repaired valuations for REO properties, where value conclusions directly inform asset management, repair strategy, pricing, and disposition decisions.

Appraising in 2027
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Session 15 Saturday
Appraising in 2027
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Session 14 Saturday
Appraising in 2027
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Integrating Report Writing Support into Your Practice

This session examines what it actually looks like for an appraiser to integrate report writing and valuation support into their day-to-day practice.

Appraising in 2027
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Session 12 Saturday
Appraising in 2027
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Highlights from the FIVA Network

This session provides an insider’s perspective on the FIVA Network and its growing role in connecting valuation professionals across borders, standards, and market realities.

Appraising in 2027
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Market Analytics for UAD 3.6: How to Support Trends and Segmentation

This session shows appraisers how to use market analytics intentionally to support trends, segmentation, and conclusions in UAD 3.6–compliant appraisal reports.

Appraising in 2027
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Session 8 Saturday
Main Stage
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
How Property Ownership Is Being Rewritten: From Fractional Shares to Tokenization

This session explores how property ownership models are changing and what those changes could mean for valuation professionals.

Main Stage
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Session 5 Saturday
Main Stage
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
Exclusive Inventory Update

This session provides a clear, current view of exclusive inventory, what it is, how it is evolving, and why it matters for valuation and real estate practice.

Main Stage
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 1
Tech Demo Friday TBD
Tech Demos
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 1
A la mode Demo: Modern Appraisal Reporting in Practice
Tech Demos
Tech Demo
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Tech Demo
True Footage Demo: Measuring Homes Accurately, Consistently, and at Scale

This demo shows how True Footage is used to capture, verify, and manage property measurements in a way that improves consistency, reduces revision risk, and supports scalable appraisal operations.

Tech Demos
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Navigating FHA Condition Issues: Valuation and Documentation Best Practices

This session gives real estate agents practical, real-world guidance on how FHA condition issues are identified, documented, and reviewed, so they can better anticipate problems, set expectations with sellers and buyers, and avoid preventable delays at underwriting.

Agent Pricing Lab
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 1
How We Got Here: Appraisal Forms, UAD, and What 3.6 Changes

This session explains how modern appraisal forms and data standards came to be, why UAD was created, what problems it was designed to solve, and how those decisions shaped today’s appraisal environment.

Agent Pricing Lab
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 1
Keynote Friday
Agent Pricing Lab
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 1
The Personal Property Valuation Industry

This session introduces the field of personal property valuation in clear, practical terms, what it includes, where it is used, and how professionals actually practice within it day to day.

Career Launchpad
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 1
PAREA Explained: A Practical Update from the Appraisal Institute

This session provides a clear, practical explanation of PAREA (Practical Applications of Real Estate Appraisal), what it is, why it exists, and how it fits into the future of appraisal education and entry pathways.

Career Launchpad
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 1
Introduction to Commercial Appraising: A Career Overview and Industry Outlook

This session provides a clear, first-hand look at what it’s actually like to work as a commercial real estate appraiser, from early career entry to senior leadership within a global valuation platform.

Career Launchpad
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 1
The Next Generation of Valuation

This session explores what the next generation of valuation and appraisers will look like as the profession moves into the 2030s, not from theory, but from lived experience across practice, technology, and regulation.

Career Launchpad
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 1
Session 28 Friday
New Revenue Playbook
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 1
From Appraiser to Investor: Real Estate Investing for Beginners

This session introduces real estate investing from the perspective of an appraiser, focusing on practical, low-friction ways to get started without overextending capital, time, or risk.

New Revenue Playbook
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 1
Opportunities in rural appraising
New Revenue Playbook
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 1
Preparing for the Stand: Courtroom Testimony Fundamentals for Appraisers

This session provides real estate appraisers with a clear, practical foundation for serving as effective expert witnesses in legal proceedings.

New Revenue Playbook
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 1
The World of Desktop and Hybrid Appraising

This session explains the desktop and hybrid segment of the valuation market in practical terms, what it is, how it works, and what appraisers need to succeed in it.

New Revenue Playbook
Business Development
Emerging Models
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 1
Creating Your First Application Without Knowing Any Code
AI Ready Appraiser
Day 2
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 2
A Practical Guide to Deploying AI
AI Ready Appraiser
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 1
AI Keynote
Main Stage
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 1
Navigating UAD 3.6: Appraisers Compare Notes

This session creates space for appraisers to compare real-world experiences with UAD 3.6, focusing on what is most confusing, time-consuming, or difficult in practice.

Main Stage
Industry Standards
UAD 3.6
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 1
Session Friday 8
Main Stage
Solo Presentation
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Solo Presentation
Day 1
How Major Cities Are Rewriting Zoning and What It Means for Value

This session examines how major U.S. cities are rethinking zoning as a tool to address housing affordability and how those changes are likely to reshape neighborhoods and property values over time.

Main Stage
Business
Zoning & Land Use
Solo Presentation
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Solo Presentation
Day 1
The Future of New Construction

This  session explores how new construction is evolving and why those changes matter for valuation professionals.

Main Stage
Business
Construction & Development
Solo Presentation
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Solo Presentation
Day 1
Session Friday 6
Main Stage
Solo Presentation
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Solo Presentation
Day 1
The 2026 Housing Market So Far: Volume, Home Price and Supply Trends, and Appraisal Waivers Usage

As the housing market moves into 2026, valuation professionals face shifting transaction volume, evolving price dynamics, regional divergence, constrained supply, and continued growth in appraisal waiver usage.

This data-driven market update will provide a grounded analysis of national and regional housing trends, exploring what is changing, what is stabilizing, and what may present new risk or opportunity for valuation professionals.

Appraising in 2027
Business
Housing Market Trends
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Day 1
Keynote Friday 1
Main Stage
Moderated Panel
Day 1
Speakers
TBD
TBD
Moderated Panel
Day 1
Redefining Risk: How Data and Policy Are Shaping the Housing Market
Main Stage
Business
Risk & Policy